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Jul. 26th, 2013 07:52 amOn this trip to Vegas, where I did nothing Vegas-like at all except think it was to hot and get burned in 30 minutes of foolish outdoor time, I traveled while reading Tom Tomorrow’s “Our Modern World” and a biography of Vonnegut. I found myself shocked to discover how each had strong political views combined with a larger desire to educate on those world views...and each simplifies their complex messages to reach a diverse audience and suck them in rather than alienate.
I laughed at each author, for each had shaped my views or at least helped me understand other positions, without me even being a conscious party to the manipulation. Touche, boys. I hope to learn more lessons from each of you.
I am disturbed by how many otherwise political people tend to be quite happy to disenfranchise anyone that doesn’t already agree with them, happily shouting with no apparent concern for changing any opinions; rather they seem to be shouting to themselves to reinforce their opinion of how good they are while the world goes to shit.
I’m more in the trying to tailor my message to a wider audience stance, both for commercial reasons and for making an impact.
I almost immediately accept that I’ll never be a writer – I have some ability and some talent perhaps, but it was in ignorance I thought authors just existed. In both books there are notes about the authors and you get glimpses of the long unrewarded hours they worked, the doors they banged on, and how much the altered their very thought patterns to reach a wider audience – and god forbid make a living doing what they loved.
I don’t know what I will do.
Like god, the existence of that seems to absolve me of responsibility for trying.
I laughed at each author, for each had shaped my views or at least helped me understand other positions, without me even being a conscious party to the manipulation. Touche, boys. I hope to learn more lessons from each of you.
I am disturbed by how many otherwise political people tend to be quite happy to disenfranchise anyone that doesn’t already agree with them, happily shouting with no apparent concern for changing any opinions; rather they seem to be shouting to themselves to reinforce their opinion of how good they are while the world goes to shit.
I’m more in the trying to tailor my message to a wider audience stance, both for commercial reasons and for making an impact.
I almost immediately accept that I’ll never be a writer – I have some ability and some talent perhaps, but it was in ignorance I thought authors just existed. In both books there are notes about the authors and you get glimpses of the long unrewarded hours they worked, the doors they banged on, and how much the altered their very thought patterns to reach a wider audience – and god forbid make a living doing what they loved.
I don’t know what I will do.
Like god, the existence of that seems to absolve me of responsibility for trying.
